The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr John Clulow
School: School of Environmental and Life Science
Commenced with Institution: 30-SEP-1985
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr John Clulow;Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony 1 University of Newcastle Project - Pilot Grant Development of a novel methodology for the production of sperm derived amphibian embryos by androgenesis   5000  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow;Dr S Donnellan;Dr Ashley Ward (Ext) 5 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Linkage Projects Building sound ecological restoration strategies for endangered amphibians   775000  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow;Dr Shae-Lee Cox;Dr Jillian Shaw 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Preventing species extinction and the loss of population genetic diversity among amphibians.   20000  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow;Dr John Fitter 2005 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Endocrine Regulation of Normal and Stress-Induced Metamorphosis in an Australian Frog: Limnodynastes peronii   7537  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 2005 2 NSW Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries) Project - Project Grant Status of populations of threatened frogs in the catchments of the Styx River on the New England Tableland   18218  
Dr John Clulow;Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Fitter 2004 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Endocrine regulation of normal and stress-induced metamorphosis in an Australian Frog: Limnodynastes peronii   11000  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 2004 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Development of reproductive technologies for endangered amphibians.   8000  
Dr John Clulow;Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Development of nuclear transfer and intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection procedures on a model Australian frog - Limnodynastes tasmaniensis   6000  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow;Dr John Fitter 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Interactions of genome, phenome and environmental stress on tadpole metamorphosis   12000  
Dr John Clulow;Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony 2002 1 World Wide Fund for Nature Project - Research Grant Cryobiology and other assisted reproductive technologies for conserving endangered frogs   5000  
Dr John Clulow;Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony 2002 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Storage and Retrieval of Viable Amphibian Genomes   6000  
Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones;Dr John Clulow 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Role of oestrogens in regulating fluid reabsorption by the efferent ductules of the testis.   13000  
Dr John Clulow;Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Retrieval of Viable Amphibians from Frozen Sperm by Androgenesis.   5000  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 2000 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Reproductive Technologies to Prevent Amphibian Extinctions.   8000  
Dr John Clulow;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones 2000 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Role of Oestrogens in Regulating Fluid Reabsorption by the Efferent Ductles of the Testis   10000  
Laureate Pr Robert Aitken;Emeritus Pr John Patrick;Professor Christina Offler;Assoc. Prof David McCurdy;Professor Raymond Rose;Conjoint Pr Timothy Roberts;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones;Dr John Clulow;Professor John Rostas;Professor Alistair Sim;Professor Gordon Burns;Conjoint Pr Loris Chahl;Dr David Kay 1999 1 Australian Research Council Equipment/Infrastructure - Large Equipment Grant Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope Facility.   203107  
Dr John Clulow;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones 1999 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Mechanisms and control of fluid reabsorption in the efferent ducts with an emphasis on the role of oestrogen   13500  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 1999 2 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Development of Reproductive Technologies for Endangered Amphibians   25781  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 1999 3 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Strategic Partnerships with Industry - Research & Training Scheme (SPIRT) Estuarine habitat restoration and rehabilitation with emphasis on conservation of the endangered green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea)   63240  
Dr John Clulow;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones 1998 1 Australian Research Council Project - Small Grant FLUID AND SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN THE DUCTULI EFFERENTES TESTIS OF THE RAT: MECHANISMS AND CONTROL   13000  
Dr John Clulow 1998 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Workshop on comparative Gamete and Embryo Cryopreservation, USA 19-20 March 1998   2184  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 1997 2 Australian Research Council Project - Large Grant Development of Reproductive Technologies for Endangered Amphibians.   65000  
Dr John Clulow;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones 1997 1 Australian Research Council Project - Small Grant Fluid and solute transport mechanisms in the ductuli efferentes testis of the rat and their novel interactions   14000  
Assoc. Prof Raymond Murdoch;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones;Dr John Clulow 1995 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant 95 APP Metabolic properties of spermatozoa relating to the development of capacity for motility.   6000  
Assoc. Prof Raymond Murdoch;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones;Dr John Clulow 1994 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Metabolic properties of spermatozoa relating to the development of capacity for motility.   6000  
Dr John Clulow 1994 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Mechanisms and control of water and solute transport and tubular balance in the efferent ducts.   2250  
Assoc. Prof Michael Mahony;Dr John Clulow 1994 2 Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation - Research Management Committee Collaborative - Collaborative Research Grant 94,95 GRANT. Experimental studies of methods to produce sterile male cane toads that are not impotent.   24226  
Dr John Clulow;Conjoint A/Prof Russell Jones 1994 3 Australian Research Council Project - Large Grant 94,95,96 GRANT. Mechanism and control of water and solute transport and tubular balance in the Ductuli Efferentes Testis of the Rat.   122967  
Dr John Clulow 1991 2 Australian Research Council Project - Large Grant Mechanisms of Water and Electrolyte Reabsorption from the Ductuli Efferentes Testis Of The Rat   73600  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (EnvironmentalSc) Principal Supervisor Ecology of the East Coast Freetail Bat
PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Sexual selection and anuran acoustic communication
PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Effect of Forestry Management Practices on the Structure of Stream Frog Communities
PhD (Biological Sciences) Principal Supervisor Role of Habitat Features in the Persistence of the Green and Golden Bell Frog
PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Tadpoles of Australian Frogs
PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Conservation of the Green and Golden Bell Frog with Emphasis on Rehabilitation of Habitat Features for Survival
PhD (Biological Sciences) Co-Supervisor Use Of Macroinvertebrates To Assess Impact Of Effluent On Streams
PhD (Biological Sciences) Consultant Supervisor Managing Pond Breeding Frogs in the Forest Environment

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.250
PhD 1.400

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Biological Sciences) 2002 Storage of amphibian gametes at low temperatures
PhD (Biological Sciences) 2003 Ecology of the endangered green and golden bell frog Litoria aurea: roles of habitat determinants, spatial dynamics, population demography and threatening processes
M Sc (Biological Sc) [R] 2004 Studies of Assisted Reproduction in the Spotted Grass Frog Limnodynastes Tasmaniensis

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Fitzsimmons Chantel, McLaughlin Eileen Anne, Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, ’Optimisation of handling, activation and assessment procedures for Bufo marinus spermatozoa’, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 19 594-601 (2007) [C1]

Clulow John, Jones Russell Campbell, ’Composition of Luminal Fluid Secreted by the Seminiferous Tubules and After Reabsorption by the Extratesticular Ducts of the Japanese Quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica’, Biology of Reproduction, 71 1508-1516 (2004) [C1]

Edwards D L, Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, ’Effect of sperm concentration, medium osmolality and oocyte storage on artificial fertilisation success in a myobatrachid frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)’, Reproduction Fertility and Development, 16 347-354 (2004) [C1]

Hansen Lyall Amanda, Dacheux Francoise, Man Suet Yee, Clulow John, Jones Russell Campbell, ’Fluid Reabsorption by the Ductuli Efferentes Testis of the Rat Is Dependent on Both Sodium and Chlorine’, Biology of Reproduction, 71 410-416 (2004) [C1]

Man Suet Yee, Clulow John, Jones Russell Campbell, ’Signal Transduction in the Ductuli Efferentes Testis of the Rat: Inhibition of Fluid Reabsorption by Cyclic Adenosine 3', 5' - Monophosphate’, Biology of Reproduction, 1714-1718 (2003) [C1]

Browne Robert Kenneth, Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, ’A comparison of sucrose, saline, and saline with egg-yolk diluents on the cryopreservation of cane toad (Bufo marinus) sperm’, Cryobiology, 44 251-257 (2002) [C1]

Browne Robert Kenneth, Davis J, Pomering Melissa, Clulow John, ’Storage of cane toad (Bufo marinus) sperm for 6 days at 0 degrees C with subsequent cryopreservation’, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 14 267-273 (2002) [C1]

Browne Robert Kenneth, Clulow John, Mahony Michael Joseph, ’The short-term storage and cryopreservation of spermatozoa from hylid and myobatrachid frogs’, Cryo Letters, 23 129-136 (2002) [C1]

Browne Robert Kenneth, Clulow John, Mahony Michael Joseph, ’Short-term storage of cane toad (Bufo marinus) gametes’, Reproduction, 121 167-173 (2001) [C1]

Hansbro Nicole Gower, Clulow John, Man Suet Yee, Jones Russell Campbell, ’pH and bicarbonate in the ductuli efferentes testis of the rat’, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY, 23 46-50 (2000) [C1]

Murdoch Raymond Neville, Armstrong Vanessa Leanne, Clulow John, Jones Russell Campbell, ’Relationship between motility and oxygen consumption of sperm from the cauda epididymides of the rat’, Reproduction Fertility and Development, 11 87-94 (1999) [C1]

Hansen Lyall Amanda, Clulow John, Jones Russell Campbell, ’The role of Na+ -H+ exchange in fluid and solute transport in the rat efferent ducts’, Experimental Physiology, 84 521-527 (1999) [C1]

Browne Robert Kenneth, Clulow John, Mahony Michael Joseph, Clark Andrew Kingsley, ’Successful recovery of motility and fertility of cryopreserved cane toad (Bufo marinus) sperm’, Cryobiology, 37 339-345 (1998) [C1]

Conference Publication

Clulow John, Fitzsimmons Chantel, Curphey Lauren, Mahony Michael Joseph, ’Amphibian genome cryobanking - success in sperm cryopreservation but the block to embryo cryopreservation remains’, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Society for Reproductive Biology, Christchurch, New Zealand (2007) [E3]

Clulow Simon, Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, ’The evolution of developmental plasticity in an amphibian ephemeral specialist: A density and food recouse independent model of phenotypic plasticity in the Sandpiper Frog, Lechriodus fletcheri’, ASH 2007 Program and Abstracts, Albany, W.A. (2007) [E3]

Stockwell Michelle Pirrie, Clulow John, Mahony Michael Joseph, ’Water solutes inhibit the growth and infective capacity of the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)’, ASH 2007 Program and Abstracts, Albany, W.A. (2007) [E3]

Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, ’Control of cane toads by sterile male realise and inherited sterility’, Conference Proceedings, Brisbane, QLD (2006) [E3]

K L Minahan, Clulow John, Mahony Michael Joseph, Smith Roger, Fitter John Thomas, ’Different environmental stresses elicit differential CRH responses in limnodynastes peronii’, Endocrine Journal-Continuation of Endocrinologia Japonica, Queensland, Australia (2006) [E3]

Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, ’Assisted Reproductive Technologies for Endangered Amphibians’, Ithala 2004, Ithala Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2004) [E3]

Jones Russell Campbell, Knee Rebecca Anne, Ecroyd Heath William, Hansbro Nicole Gower, Clulow John, Aitken Robert John, Beagley Kenneth William, ’Delivery of Antibodies for Male Immunocontraception’, The Third International Conference on the Epididymis, Charlottesville, Virginia (2003) [E3]

Jones Russell Campbell, Hansen Lyall Amanda, Man Suet Yee, Clulow John, ’Mechanism and Control of Fluid Reabsorption by the Ductuli Efferentes of the Rat’, The Third International Conference on the Epididymis, Charlottesville, Virginia (2003) [E3]

Jones Russell Campbell, Clulow John, Kidd Grahame James, Chaturapanich G, Nixon Brett, Dacheux J -, ’The Avian Epididymis: A Simple Conduit or a Sophisticated Adaptation?’, The Third International Conference on the Epididymis, Charlottesville, Virginia (2003) [E2]

Jones Russell Campbell, Clulow John, Kidd G, Chaturapanich G, Nixon Brett, Dacheux J-L, ’The Avian Epididymis: A simple conduit or a sophisticated adaptation?’, The Third International Conference on the Epididymis, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (2003) [E2]

Jones Russell Campbell, Hansen Lyall Amanda, Man Suet Yee, Clulow John, ’Mechanism and control of fluid reabsorption by the ductuli efferentes of the rat’, Third International Conference on the Epididymis, Charlottesville, VA, USA (2002) [E3]

Clulow John, Mahony Michael Joseph, Browne Robert Kenneth, Pomering Melissa, Clark Andrew Kingsley, ’Applications of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to endangered anuran amphibians’, Declines and disappearances of Australian Frogs, Canberra ACT (1999) [E1]

Mahony Michael Joseph, Clulow John, Browne Robert Kenneth, Pomering Melissa, ’Declines and disappearances of frogs: risk assessment and contingency strategies’, Declines and Disappearances of Australian Frogs, Canberra Act (1999) [E1]

Clulow John, Jones Russell Campbell, Hansen Lyall Amanda, Man Suet Yee, ’Fluid and electrolyte reabsorption in the ductuli efferentes testis’, The Epididymis: Cellular and Molecular Aspects, Robertson, NSW Australia (1998) [E1]

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